| Show simple beauty marks rebuilt tomb bf lincoln shrine at springfield now more worthy of the great president RESIDENT HOOVER dedicated a P PRESIDENT transformed abraham lincoln tomb at springfield ill june 17 last year I 1 when the monument over the spot where the body of the civil war president rests was given to the world again pilgrims to the grave found that it t Is a place lace of simple grandeur befitting a national shrine for months it was waa closed to the public while skilled artists plied piled their arts to repair and rebuild it and gave it beauty simplicity and dignity the reconstruction was made pos bible by the passage of a appropriation by the general assembly y in 1029 much the same outside outwardly the monument appears the same came except that it has an air of newness of freshness in a terrace created at the south or entrance side of the monument there Is a bronze head of lincoln by gutzon borglum on a pedestal of granite the great transformation Is in the interior of the monument under per bonal supervision of 0 herrick hammond state architect and former president of the american institute of architects the previously louly unused and unfinished area at the base of the these bronze statuette statuettes a were obtained by the state through the efforts of mr hammond and il H cleaveland director of the state department of public works and buildings the sculptors daniel 0 french ared vred P red torrey and leonard crunelle are ara each represented by two models while lorado taft adolph weinman and the late augustus st gaudens each have one As a background for these statuettes there are rich warm colored panels of marble supreme effect in chamber beautiful as are tile the rotunda and tho the galleries the supreme effect Is attained in the sarcophagus chamber there the pilasters pi lasters and frieze are of trench french black marble as dark as midnight with walls of st genevieve Genev leve golden vein marble on the upper portion of each jet black pilaster there Is a bronze wreath the ceiling of the chamber Is covered with gold leaf and the room like ilka the rotunda Is lighted indirectly by lights hidden by an ornamental cornice there over the spot where Lincol ns 1 body lies beneath many feet of concrete has been placed a new sarcophagus of solid marble of warm red hue on it Is the simple inscription abraham lincoln 11 directly above what formerly was the north door but now transformed into a window covered with a wrought iron grill there Is cut in the marble this famous tribute to the eman cipa tor now he belongs to the ages across from the sarcophagus to fa a crypt sealed with slabs of marble rot rest the bodies of mrs lincoln and three of their sons edward baker william wallace and thomas flags form honor guard arranged along the semicircular wall of the sarcophagus chamber flanking the sarcophagus there Is an array of nine flags in the place of honor at the right of the sarcophagus stands tho the stars and SIr stripes lpes the official standard of the seven states in which the lincoln family I 1 lived ved from the time of their ar rival in 16 america until the end of the emancipators career massachusetts new jersey virginia pennsylvania kentucky indiana illinois occupy the next seven positions president hoover personally installed the flag of the president of the united states |
